Contents
August 21, 2008
Cover Story
- Electronic-system-level design: Is there fire beneath the smoke?
After years of overclaiming and underperforming, ESL design has a role in many design flows. But has anyone noticed?
Design Features
- Lithium-ion technology targets portable power
Work closely with your lithium-ion-cell manufacturer and battery-pack-design house to develop safety and performance features for your system's battery pack. - On-chip test capabilities solve the analog-test problem for high-speed serial interfaces
Including analog-test hardware in an SOC provides visibility into the performance of on-chip serial links, helping to ensure signal integrity and reduce the cost of manufacturing test.
Pulse
- FPGA IP completes wireless-backhaul method
- Photonics researchers decelerate light to accelerate data
- Technology gives windows a solar edge
- Silicon Genesis’ “kerf-free” wafering technology reduces amount of polysilicon for PV apps
- Multiarchitecture DSP road map refines power-efficiency-versus-performance balance
- Keithley debuts software upgrade and switch/multimeter options
- 16-bit, 10M-sample/sec ADC uses SAR architecture
- Lithium-ion capacitor combines more than 100,000 charge cycles, low self-discharge rate
Design Ideas
- Astable multivibrator lights LED from a single cell
- IC provides versatile toggle functions
- Instrumentation amp has low offset, drift, and low-frequency noise
- Four DIPs provide as many as 80 sequential-LED outputs
- Program an op-amp gain block with a limited-adjustability, monolithic, solid-state resistor
Departments and Columns
- edn.comment
Hang up and drive; hang up and walk
- Signal Integrity
All about surface-mount ferrites
- Tapeout
IP selection and power supplies
- Supply Chain
Organic-distributor growth remains steady in unsteady times
- Supply Chain
Consumer telematics shifts to in-car connectivity
- Supply Chain
IPC Brussels meeting reveals ROHS-revisions concerns
- Tales From The Cube
It’s an electromagnetic-mechanical world
